Oct 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Internet Explorer’s share of the worldwide browser market has dropped below 50 per cent, according to new data. According to StatCounter findings, in September, the Microsoft browser’s market share was 49.87 per cent – down from 58 per cent this time...
Oct 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
People who spend the most hours on Facebook are the most likely to be “defriended” on the social networking site, according to new research. Researchers from Colorado University found that friends’ frequent posts about nothing in particular were most...
Oct 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Digital Ethnic marketing firm Indoor Media has been acquired by Komli Media, Asia Pacific’s leading digital media network platform. The deal marks Komli’s second acquisition since June, as it aggressively expands its international operations. Founded in 2007 by Murly...
Oct 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Over nine in ten (92%) of American mothers share information about their children online, according to new research. The study, commissioned by information-security company AVG and carried out by Research Now, surveyed 2,200 mothers of young children in US, UK,...
Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Facebook has unveiled several new features on its social network, including one that makes it easier for its 500 million members to separate online friendships into groups and another that lets them archive personal information posted on the website. The new grouping...
Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google is testing a preview pane tool that lets users see a sample of the pages returned in search results, before deciding to click through to their chosen site. When users hover over a search result, Google will display a preview of the entire website. The tool will...
Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
New research into online video ads shows that consumers want to investigate brands in their own time, and are more open to receiving ads around quality video content. The results of a year-long study from Sky and the Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade body for...
Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Dominance of major social gaming players on Facebook, ranked by daily users (millions).
Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Apple has launched its much aniticipated TV device in the UK this week, letting users stream films from its online store direct to their TV sets. Apple TV costs £99, and the device plugs directly into TVs to stream films as well as play music from an iPad, which can...
Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has secured new content partnership deals with media and internet companies, including NBC Universal’s CNBC, Time Warner’s HBO and Amazon, for its forthcoming Google TV service. Turner Broadcasting is working to optimise some of its websites for...
Oct 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
IPC Media has sold its popular internet magazine Web User to Dennis Publishing, for an undisclosed sum. The move comes as part of the review of IPC Media’s niche and specialist titles. Web User is the UK’s best-selling internet magazine, offering internet news,...
Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The money spent on internet ads in the UK increased 10% in the first half of this year, with advertisers spending a total of nearly £2bn on the medium, according to new data. The study, from the IAB and Price Waterhouse Coopers , found that video and social...
Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Internet Eyes, a new website which pays the public to monitor live commercial CCTV footage online is set to be launched in Devon. The site will pay up to £1,000 to subscribers who regularly report suspicious activity such as shoplifting. Managing director Tony Morgan...
Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Some of the most popular apps written for Google’s Android phones do not tell users what is done with data they gather, according to a new study. The research, conducted by a team of computer scientists from Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University chose 30...
Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
BT is to map the demand for broadband across the country, and give the five keenest areas an upgrade by 2012. The move will give the opportunity to communities deprived of high-speed web access the chance to get investment from the telecoms firm. The online survey,...
Oct 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has acquired BlindType, a company that specialises in touch typing software for mobile devices, to boost company’s Android mobile operating system. The BlindType system aims to solve the problems of typing on small touch screens, buy creating self-learning...
Oct 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has launched its ground-level mapping service in the world’s most barren continent – Antarctica. The move will allow Google users to navigate around the snow-capped mountains, coastline and icebergs of Antarctica – a place that few people ever...
Oct 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google has launched a new image format, called WebP, which the company claims will result in smaller file sizes for commonly shared small image files, in amove that could threaten the dominance of the popular JPEG image format used across the Web. According to Google,...
Oct 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
UK online TV platform YouView, previously known as project canvas, has dismissed claims it will damage investment in the fledgling UK IPTV market. YouView, the on-demand TV service backed by BBC ITV, BT and Channel 4, is set to launch as a beta test in the first...
Oct 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has outlined his company’s ideas for the future of search technology, where we are never lonely, never forget anything, never get lost, never run out of ideas, are never bored and never need to drive a car because it will drive itself....
